Ashida Mana, born 23 June 2004 in Hyogo, is a talent Japanese child actress. She is represented by Jobbykids. Her nickname is “まなティ”（manachi）

Ashida made her debut appearance in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's Short Movie 2. Bokenmama in 2009.

In 2010, Ashida got most of the attention when she starred the television drama Mother , and won the Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix and the Special Award at the 4th Tokyo Drama Awards for her role.

She later became the youngest lead actress in a Japanese television drama at the age of 6 in the special television drama-cum-movie Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien in 2011.

The same year she starred the series Marumo no Okite and became the youngest lead actress in Japanese television drama history. The episode won great success, the final audience rating reached 23.9% and 15.8% for average. It became the second popular television drama in the spring of 2011 in Japan.

In 2012, surprisingly she won the first place of the TOP20 most popular actress in Japan. The runner-up is Mirai Shida and the third is Miho Kanno.